Category Archives: assassinations

Assassinations Continue within the ANC in Durban

Monday, 2 March 2020
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Assassinations Continue within the ANC in Durban

Today we received a call from Mthokozisi Mhlophe’s family. He was murdered on Wednesday last week at his house in Mayville, just opposite the eNkanini occupation. They called us because people don’t know what else to do when assassination tears into their homes and their lives.

Mhlophe was an ANC loyalist and led in various structures of the ANC. In this capacity he often engaged local leaders in Cato Crest like Thembinkosi Qumbela, who was assassinated in March 2013, and Nkululeko Gwala, the Abahlali leader who was assassinated in June 2013. Continue reading →

Abahlali to Commemorate our Fallen Heroes through the Annual Thuli Ndlovu Memorial Lecture

Monday, 23 September 2019
Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement

Abahlali to Commemorate our Fallen Heroes through the Annual Thuli Ndlovu Memorial Lecture

September is a sad month for our movement. Our offices and our homes in the Kennedy Road settlement were ransacked, attacked and destroyed in September 2009. Our leaders were violently driven from the Kennedy Road after the conspiracy to assassinate our leaders including S’bu Zikode failed. After this attack the then MEC for Safety and Community Liaison Willies Mchunu celebrated the “demise” of Abahlali. This attack happened in the presence of the police. It was September 2014 when Nqobile Nzuza, an Abahlali student who was 17 years old, was shot dead by the police during peaceful protest in Cato Crest. It was September 2014 when Thuli Ndlovu our chairperson in KwaNdengezi was assassinated by a hitman hired by two ANC councillors and their gun man (hit man). The councillors and their hit man were later sentenced to life imprisonment by the Durban High Court. Continue reading →

Abahlali to march against state repression, threats and assassinations

Friday, 5 October 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Abahlali to march against state repression, threats and assassinations

On Monday 8 October Abahlali baseMjondolo will march against repression in Durban. There will be solidarity protests in Cape Town, Johannesburg and New York.

Since our movement was founded in 2005 we have faced waves of repression including assault, arrest, torture in police custody, organised campaigns of slander, the destruction of our homes, death threats, the murder of our members during protests and evictions, and the targeted assassination of our leaders. The price for land and dignity has been paid in blood. Continue reading →

Why is there so much conflict between Abahlali and the state?

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20 September 2018 By Christopher Clark

Scarcity of houses is just one part of a problem that has its roots in the province’s 1990s violence

Shack-dwellers in the Durban area who have been campaigning against evictions have been dealt with violently. Photo: Sam Reinders

Across the contested landscape of Durban and the sprawling informal settlements that surround it, Abahlali baseMjondolo and the ANC are locked in a bitter land conflict.

According to Abahlali, the social movement of shack-dwellers fighting for land and against evictions, more than ten of the group’s leaders have been killed since 2013. Some died in running battles with eThekwini’s notoriously violent anti-land invasion unit, others in circumstances that bear all the hallmarks of political hits. Continue reading →

No justice for assassinated Abahlali activists

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12 September 2018 By Christopher Clark and Nomfundo Xolo

Investigating officer claimed no knowledge of S’fiso Ngcobo’s case, hung up the phone, and blocked our number

Photo of Phumzile Mkhize

Phumzile Mkhize says she has been kept in the dark about the investigation into her husband’s murder. All photos: Samantha Reinders

Just metres from 28-year-old Phumzile Mkhize’s shack, perched on a steep hillside in the Durban informal settlement of eKukhanyeni, two bullet holes mark the wall of a local spaza shop where her late husband S’fiso Ngcobo was shot dead while buying cool drinks on 23 May. Continue reading →